“Caustic, highly recherché, and simply great fun to read for the questing intellectual soul. complex and erudite” – Publisher's Weekly US “Eminent British philosopher and polymath Scruton gives a sharp-edged, provocative critique of leading leftist thinkers since the mid-twentieth century. A selection of the main thinkers of the New Left, Roger Scruton demonstrates the huge impact these thinkers and theorists have had on culture and politics since. Thinkers of the New Left Roger Scruton & Roger Burns & Oates ( 1985 ) Copy BIBTEX Abstract This article has no associated abstract. The result is a devastating critique of modern left-wing thinking. Scruton's exploration of these important issues is written with skill, perception and at all times with pellucid clarity.

In Thinkers of the New Left Scruton asks, what does the Left look like today and as it has evolved since 1989? He charts the transfer of grievances from the working class to women, gays and immigrants, asks what can we put in the place of radical egalitarianism, and what explains the continued dominance of antinomian attitudes in the intellectual world? Can there be any foundation for resistance to the leftist agenda without religious faith? Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. In addition to assessments of these thinkers' philosophical and political contributions, the book contains a biographical and bibliographical section summarizing their careers and most important writings. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Zizek, Ralph Milliband and Eric Hobsbawm.

He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking.

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